The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part I: Zavražje Reset

Molecule of Eternity: A Living Translation

A serialized philosophical narrative.

Selected parts of the novel, made available ahead of the full English edition in the form of essays.

Each piece is an encounter. Each encounter—a ripple of memory, character, or myth.

Translated directly from the author’s desk. This is a living text—sincere and still evolving.

“The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part I: Zavražje Reset”



The inaugural essay in The Nine-Edged Mirror introduces the haunting intellectual world of Margarita Smolina, a solitary researcher whose tragic family legacy in the enigmatic industrial settlement of Zavražje propels her into the metaphysical fringes of science.

Amidst the phenomenon locally whispered as the ‘Zavražje Reset’ — a systemic erasure cloaked in silence and speculation — Margarita’s journey evolves into a philosophical odyssey through trauma, memory, and quantum consciousness. Navigating post-Soviet scientific institutions and shadowed metaphysical territory, she formulates a radical hypothesis: that a mysterious cosmological force — the Expelled — acts as a universal antagonist to structure, memory, and meaning.

Infused with elegiac prose and precise conceptual language, the essay constructs a deeply layered narrative across several registers: biographical realism, speculative cosmology, and critical metaphysics. Smolina’s thesis — that the human soul may function as a last bastion of ontological coherence against this cosmic deletion — catalyses her quiet rebellion against both empirical orthodoxy and philosophical defeatism.